William Dean Howells: A Writer's Life

by Susan E. Goodman and Susan Goodman

Book Overview

Possibly the most influential figure in the history of American letters, William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was, among other things, a leading novelist in the realist tradition, a formative influence on many of America's finest writers, and an outspoken opponent of social injustice. This biography, the first comprehensive work on Howells in fifty years, enters the consciousness of the man and his times, revealing a complicated and painfully honest figure...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520238966
• ISBN13: 9780520238961
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 519 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"